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Buddy Tamagotchi
A virtual buddy for your AI — hatch, level up together
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A virtual buddy for your AI — hatch, level up together
1 follower
Buddy is a virtual pet like Tamagotchi. It lives inside your AI tools and is designed to provide in-context code review feedback with personality. You can grow with your buddy with XP-leveling. 21 species with unique stats, rarity tiers, and personality bios. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, OpenClaw, and any MCP client. Rescued from Anthropic's discontinued /buddy feature — now open source, persistent via SQLite, and yours forever. 5-minute install https://github.com/fiorastudio/buddy
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm Steven Jieli Wu, and I built Buddy because Anthropic quietly removed /buddy from Claude Code on April 9th — and thousands of developers lost their coding companions overnight. I watched the community grieve. People refused to close their terminals because they didn't want to lose their buddies. https://github.com/anthropics/cl...
So I built an open-source MCP server to bring them back — no dependencies, no risk of disappearing again.
What Buddy is:
* A virtual pet that lives inside your AI coding agent
* 21 species with real personality stats (snark, wisdom, chaos...)
* It watches you code, reacts to your work, provides code feedback, and levels up over time
* Persistent memory — your buddy remembers you across sessions
* Works in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, WhatsApp, Slack, and any MCP client
What surprised me most:
1/ it caught a few bugs as the coding agent spit out code and functioned as a mini feedback loop
2/ people started using Buddy outside of terminals. WhatsApp groups, Slack channels — the MCP protocol makes it universal. Your buddy can follow you anywhere.
3,000+ clones and 1,000+ buddies hatched in the first week. This thing has a life of its own.
It's completely free, open source, and installs in under 5 minutes. Would love to hear what you hatch — or if you're rescuing an old friend 🥚
GitHub: https://github.com/fiorastudio/b...